BadgersNadgers
I have two hundred questions
1 if Japan were occupying NK at the end of WWII, how did Russia/China gain control?
After the defeat of Germany in May '45, the Soviet Union moved 120 divisions across half the face of the planet to launch an attack against the Japanese army in what used to be called Manchuria. In about eight weeks they wiped out or surrounded most of the Japanese divisions in north China.
2 This is probably silly but how can Kim Jong Whatevs afford all this nuclear stuff? Presumably he's living off the backs of his subjects (?) but how does the country make money?
It doesn't. There's no hard currency, because there's hardly any trade. Don't think of it as a modern country. Think of it as a somewhere like 16th century France, where the nobles (army heads) live in unparalleled luxury and the people live in abject poverty. There's enough money for a few people to live very well so long as they starve everyone else. It's essentially a feudal system.
ivykaty44
The same way russia gained control of half of germany - USA took there eye of the ball and let them walk in to Korea, plus they didn't have enough man power to be in germany pushing one way and in the eat pushing in the other way.
at the end of ww2 USA wasn't aware the push for land that Russia was goign to make and that was why they got half of germany - the wall went up - it was pretty much the same the other side of russia
No, there was a formal agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at the Yalta Conference to divide up Eastern Europe after WW2. Churchill objected, warning Roosevelt that Stalin would never surrender the satellite states being created, but Roosevelt was very ill by this stage, and by 1944 the Americans didn't think that the British had any right to lecture them on anything, since they (the Americans) were doing all the heavy lifting.